Support: Small-scale limestone altar with fluted column as base, surmounted by a capital broken at right (w: 0.07 × h: 0.115).

Layout: Inscribed on one side of the abacus of the capital (w: 0.03 × h: 0.019).

Letters: 0.01

Date: Probably late second or early first century BC (lettering, context).

Findspot: Found before 1982 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 2984. Seen in 1982 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Étéarkhos [---].

English translation

Etearchos [---].

Italian translation

Etearchos [---].

Commentary

The few other small-scale altars bearing inscriptions have a divine name at the dative alone (IRCyr2020 C.663) or with the name of a dedicant at the nominative (IRCyr2020 C.494, IRCyr2020 M.191, l. 2). Most of the present inscription being lost, we may suppose that Etearchos dedicated this one to an unknown deity.

It would not be inconceivable that a woman was the dedicant. However no feminine is known corresponding to the masculine name Etearchos.

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